Mike Lester for December 22, 2016

Electoral College is in balance? Do not tell that to Trump.

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Landslide, I tell you. The largest landslide in history. I was huge!!!!

Yay! People in rural states have the power! Just like the slave owning founding fathers envisioned…. Alt-Right forever!!!!Give me supremacy or give me more supremacy!!

What ‘we the people’ self identify as:

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http://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2016/11/09125718/FT_16.11.09_exitPolls_education.png

Apparently the people on the coasts let the liberal media do their thinking for them. The media promises they can have all they want by taxing the rich. Most of the people in charge of the media aren’t stupid enough to believe that will work for more than a few months before the country is bankrupt, so that must be their goal. First they want to destroy the economy, then tell their stupid supporters that it’s all the Republican’s fault, and that only socialism can save them. The next step would be communism, with the media elite and the Clinton machine in charge.

Voting Democrat is a big city thing, with its crime, poverty and corruption. Everyone else votes Republican.

He should change “fly over states” to “tourist destination states”. Let’s give them their due.

Strange, Texas has more population (and thus votes in the anti-people veto panel) than New York, yet the juntistas never accuse it of having too much power to permit free elections. It hasn’t supported liberty since FDR, not even LBJ’s 1.1 term.

Its so fun to let the racist, sexist, greedy, fascist, ignorant masses lead us around by their gold plated idiot Trump.

@ Nothing but the Truth

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Well, I am not trying to prove you hypothesis (not theory) either way. Just giving you different ways to look at something you could look up yourself.

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Carl (2014) analysed data from the U.S. General Social Survey (GSS), and found that individuals who identify as Republican have slightly higher verbal intelligence than those who identify as Democrat. An important qualification was that the measure of verbal intelligence used was relatively crude, namely a 10-word vocabulary test. This study examines three other measures of cognitive ability from the GSS: a test of probability knowledge, a test of verbal reasoning, and an assessment by the interviewer of how well the respondent understood the survey questions. In all three cases, individuals who identify as Republican score slightly higher than those who identify as Democrat; the unadjusted differences are 1–3 IQ points, 2–4 IQ points and 2–3 IQ points, respectively. Path analyses indicate that the associations between cognitive ability and party identity are largely but not totally accounted for by socio-economic position: individuals with higher cognitive ability tend to have better socio-economic positions, and individuals with better socio-economic positions are more likely to identify as Republican. These results are consistent with Carl’s (2014) hypothesis that higher intelligence among classically liberal Republicans compensates for lower intelligence among socially conservative Republicans.

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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289614001081

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Intelligence

Volume 47, November–December 2014, Pages 44–53How intelligence mediates liberalism and prosociality

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Individuals of most or least intelligence consistently orient further left politically than those of middle intelligence, producing a U-shaped curve. Evidence advanced to support alternative intelligence-moderation and pol

political typing hypotheses is explained mainly in terms of that U-shaped curve. The lower intelligence extreme orients toward the left because it is populated disproportionately by leftist beneficiaries (e.g., economic and racial minorities). The leftist vote by leftist beneficiaries strictly on issues on which they are leftist beneficiaries is attributed to personal experience, rather than self-interest. While self-interest alone is a weak influence, personal experience with a segment is a liberalizing factor on issues involving that segment because it increases the likelihood of one’s attributing the stations of individuals in that segment to external causes and of one’s being empathetic and trusting toward that segment’s individuals. Intelligence confers leftist tendencies primarily for the same reasons, which explains the leftism of the higher intelligence extreme. Unlike the lower intelligence extreme, the higher intelligence extreme is broadly leftist, self-identifies as liberal, and is strongly prosocial overall. An explanatory costly signaling hypothesis is superfluous.

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http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289614001287

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Personally, I do not think understanding issues that come before voters requires that much intelligence. It is not like you are trying understand string theory. Both parties have low IQ voters and your trying to say one party got more of the 10% low IQ voters because why?Because you think that parties policies are stupid. Gee any bias?

The founders warned us about the dangers of political parties and the influence of money in politics. The political parties have inserted themselves under the guise of being our representatives and have made it virtually impossible for a new player to get in the game. Their have been 700 proposals to correct the Electoral College of represent current conditions, but the entrenched political parties are not really interested in what the people want. People only have votes, not insider information, not chance of a lucrative post-Congress job, etc.

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I’ve personally worked with PhD s and high school graduates that have the same skill level and am more interested in what you can do (the real elitism) rather than the where and how you gained your expertise. With the Internet, your reputation precedes you.

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For reasons well beyond my understanding, we treat our representatives not as public servants but as a pseudo-nobility who do not have to conform to the vetting or laws and justice of the common man … we actually re-elect criminals and incompetents. I want nothing but the best for all Americans and wish that our representatives had to swear an oath to do no harm when they legislate … with a priority of people over ideology.

I don’t trust California to elect anyone seeing as they elected to put Arnold Schwarzenegger as their governor twice.

You assume much.

Yes, with the EC, you don’t have to fool everyone, just Pennsylvania, and and Ohio. Florida is so full of idiots, you can’t even take them seriously.